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Dear Tony,<BR>
I have subscribed to the blueprint as you suggested. The link at nugo.org you provided, however, does not exist, at least according to my dns.<BR>
Bye,<BR>
<BR>
Luca<BR>
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Il giorno ven, 11/09/2009 alle 12.37 +0100, Tony Travis ha scritto:
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Luca Venturini wrote:
> Dear Tony,
> thank you for your quick answer. I had already seen
> the biobuntu project page some time ago, but the blueprint there seemed
> to indicate that the project had stopped with the release of the
> Ubuntu-base BioLinux 5.0. Glad to read it is not so. In particular, the
> possibility of a Biobuntu PPA is quite interesting, especially for
> porting this software to 64 bit machines too. I look forward from
> hearing news about this possibility.
Hello, Luca.
Development of 'biobuntu' did stop when Bio-Linux 5.0 was released, but
I attended a meeting between NuGO (European Nutrigenomics Organisation),
NTC (Dutch Toxicogenomics Consortium) and NEBC in Oxford last month to
discuss collaboration on core features of a Linux-based bioinformatics
workstation or server that we can customise for our respective users.
One possibility that we discussed was opening up Bio-Linux 'core'
development to the Ubuntu developer community, via the blueprints and
PPA. My 'biobuntu' blueprint could be a starting point for this, but I
also want to develop it for clustering instances via Kerrighed/XtreemOS.
Please subscribe to my blueprint if you're interested.
> For now, however, do you have perchance any advice in installing this
> software on a 64 bit system? In some months I will probably have to
> switch from 32 bit to 64 (I plan on a huge upgrade on RAM), so I was
> looking around for a smooth transition also in this area.
> Thank you for your kind attention.
You could use a 32-bit chroot to run a Bio-Linux userland under a 64-bit
kernel. I've thought of doing this myself, but I've not actually tried
it yet. NuGO currently has 31 NBX Opteron servers, mostly running 32-bit
'biobuntu', but we are upgrading them to "NuGO-Linux" a Bio-Linux 5.0
derivative customised for NuGO. If you're intererested, you can download
the latest 'alpha' version of "NuGO-Linux" from:
<A HREF="http://nbx1.nugo.org/biobuntu">http://nbx1.nugo.org/biobuntu</A>
I'm creating USB sticks from this, but we encountered problems using
ext2 filesystems on out USB sticks created using bio-linux-usb-maker.
If you burn the nugo-linux-20090910.iso to DVD and try to create a USB
stick using the hardy backport of Ubuntu "usb-creator" that is installed
on it, you need to make a symbolic link to the CD device e.g.:
ln -s /dev/scd0 cdrom.iso
This is because "usb-creator" doesn't detect the CD/DVD when running in
a 'live' session: Something that bio-linux-usb-maker does do very well!
Bye,
Tony.
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Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition
and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK
tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, <A HREF="http://www.rowett.ac.uk">http://www.rowett.ac.uk</A>
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